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1)<br>Date: 04 Apr 2013<br>From:<span name="Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:aram@orinst.ox.ac.uk" target="_blank">aram@orinst.ox.ac.uk</a></span><br>
Subject:Christian Contribution to Arab Renaissance Conference Program<br><br><div>ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: </div><div>Thirty Seventh International Conference</div><div><br></div><div>Christian Contribution to Arab Renaissance</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Programme</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)</div><div><br></div><div><br>
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<div>Chairperson:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div><div><br></div><div>09:00-09:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
<div>09:50-10:40<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Paola Pizzo (University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy)</div><div>“Nāṡīf al-Yāzijī: his fortune in East and West at the beginning of the Arab Renaissance.”</div>
<div><br></div><div>10:30-11:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tea/Coffee</div><div><br></div><div>11:00-11:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Ms. Rana Issa (PhD candidate at UIO, Norway)</div>
<div>“Bible translation and modernization of the Arabic language in the 19th century.”</div><div>11:50-12:40<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. David Grafton (Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia):
“The 1865 so-called Van Dyck Arab translation of the Bible: Contribution to 19th century textual criticism of the New Testament.”</div>
<div><br></div><div>12:40-13:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch </div><div>15:00-15:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tea/coffee</div><div><br></div><div>Chairperson:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div>
<div><br></div><div>15:30-16:20<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Marco Demichelis (University of Turin)</div><div>“Kalām viewpoints in F. Anṭūn vs. M. ‘Abduh’s debate on Secularization. God’s absolutism and Islām irrationality as cornerstones of the Orientalist Arab-Christian thought during the Nahḍa.”</div>
<div>16:20-17:10<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> Dr. Samir Khalil (St Joseph University - Beirut)</div><div>“La contribution de Germanos Farhat à la Renaissance Arabe.”</div><div>17:10-18:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)</div>
<div>“The Maronite contribution to the preservation of Arabic language during the Ottoman period.”</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chairperson:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div><div><br></div><div>09:00-09:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Abjar Bakhou (Baylor University)</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>“Subject to be defined.”</div><div>09:50-10:40<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Rev. Željko Paša, SJ (Pontificium Istitutum Orientale, Roma)</div><div>“The Concept of God’s Trinity in the ‘Kitāb farāᵓid al-fawāᵓid fī uṣūl ad-dīn wa-l-ᶜaqāᵓid” of ᶜAḇdīšūᶜ bar Brīḳā’.”</div>
<div><br></div><div>10:30-11:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tea/Coffee</div><div><br></div><div>11:00-11:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Paolo Maggiolini (Luspio University, Rome)</div>
<div>“Tradition and Modernity. The Melkite Catholic Church from the late Ottoman Empire until the Mandate system in the Middle East.”</div><div>11:50-12:40<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Ioana Feodorov (Rumanian Academy, Bucharest)</div>
<div>“Beginnings of Arabic Printing in Ottoman Syria (1706-1711): the Romanians’ part in Patriarch Athanasios Dabbās’s achievements.”</div><div><br></div><div>12:40-13:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch </div>
<div><br></div><div>Chairperson:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div><div><br></div><div>15:00-15:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tea/coffee</div>
<div><br></div><div>15:30-16:20<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Anas Soufan (Geneva University)</div><div>“Syrian architectural Modernity between Ottomanism and Arabism?”</div><div>16:20-17:10<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> Dr. Carsten Walbiner (Birzeit University, Palestine)</div>
<div>“Ilyas Basil Faraj – a Lebanese protagonist of the Nahda in Jerusalem.”</div><div>17:10-18:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Geoffrey Roper (London)</div><div>“The Arabic press in Malta, 1825-1842: its influence on the 19th century Arab renaissance.”</div>
<div>19:00-22:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Banquet</div><div><br></div><div>WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Chairperson:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Carsten Walbiner (Birzeit University, Palestine)</div><div><br></div><div>09:00-09:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Mahmoud O. Haddad (University of Balamand)</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>“The role of the Christian clergy in the 19th century: religious and scientific.”</div><div>09:50-10:40<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Hilary Kilpatrick (Lausanne - Switzerland)</div>
<div>“What were the aims of Christian writers of the 17th and early 18th century?”</div><div><br></div><div>10:30-11:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tea/Coffee</div><div><br></div><div>11:00-11:50<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Hayat Bualuan (American University of Beirut)</div>
<div>“Contribution of 18th Century Christian Historians of Bilad al Sham to the Arab Renaissance.”</div><div>11:50-12:40<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Souad Slim (Balamand University - Lebanon)</div><div>
“The role of the Greek Orthodox in the starting of the civil society in Bilad al-Sham and in confirming Arab identity.”</div><div>12:40-13:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lunch </div><div><br></div><div>Chairperson:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div>
<div><br></div><div>15:00-15:30<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tea/coffee</div><div><br></div><div>15:30-16:20<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Dr. Abjar Bahkou (Baylor University, Waco, Texas)</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>“Jurji Zaydan: Activist and reformer of the Arabic language and literature.”</div><div>16:20-17:10<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div>
<div>17:10-18:00<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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